the small press series

Shared Writing: Renga Days
A guide to renga days by Alec Finlay, et al

Published: 2005
publisher: morning star, platform projects, BALTIC, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Edition of 750 copies
Extent: pb, 48pp,col.
Dimensions: 178mm by 119mm by 5mm
ISBN: 0954683145

RRP: £10.00

Ideas Leave Objects Standing
a reader of new work by David Bellingham (1990-2002)

A major new collection by a Glasgow based artist and writer, includes graphic and typographic work, texts, poems and photographic pieces.

Published: 2005
Publisher: Platform projects, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Edition of 1500
Format: 96 pp; col, hb
ISBN 0954683153

RRP:£15

The Book of Questions
Artist anthology of children’s questions
collected by Alec Finlay

Published: 2005
Publisher: platform projects, Creative Patnerships, morning star, BALTIC
Edition of 2,700 copies
Extent: pb, 64pp., col.
Dimensions: 180mm x 120mm
ISBN:0954683137

RRP: £5.99

Rosengarten
Artist collaboration by Janice Galloway and Anne Bevan

A collaboration between novelist and artist exploring the history and mythology of obstetrics. Poetry, plant-lore, short-prose, sculpture and photography combine to provide an oblique meditation on cultural and medical interventions into conception, contraception and childbirth.

Published: 2005
Publisher: platform projects, Hunterian Art Gallery
Edition of 1,500 copies
Extent: pb, 96pp, col.
Dimensions: 180mm x 120mm
ISBN: 0954683102

RRP: £10.00

Mesostic Herbarium
An anthology of mesostic poems on flora, colleted by Alec Finlay, with a CD-ROM

Published: 2004
Publisher: morning star, platform projects, BALTIC, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, PACE, Creative partnerships (Durham Sunderland)
Edition of 1000 copies
Extent: pb, 96pp, b/w
Dimensions: 117mm x 175mm
ISBN: 0954683129

RRP: £10.00

Turning Toward Living
An anthology of circle poems, collected by Alec Finlay

Published: 2004
Publisher: morning star, platform projects, BALTIC, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Edition of 1000 copies
Extent: pb, 96pp, b/w
Dimensions: 117mm x 175mm
ISBN: 0954683110

RRP: £10.00

Verse Chain: Sharing Haiku & Renga
Alec Finlay and Martin Lucas

The classical Japanese art of renga is a thousand year old form of communal poetry, in which poets compose a chain of linked verses. This beginners guide to sharing haiku and renga contains all that you will need to organize your own event: guidelines for composing renga of varying degrees of difficulty, from a simple version that takes an hour, to a 36-verse renga that requires a day; and examples of contemporary renga With essays by Martin Lucas, Alec Finlay, Gerry Loose, Brian Tasker, Caitlin DeSilvey, and photographs by Nina Sverdvik and Dylan Matthew

Published: March 2003
Publisher: morning star, BALTIC Centre for the Contemporary Art
Edition of 750 copies
Extent: pb, 48pp,col.
Dimensions: 178mm by 119mm by 5mm
ISBN: 1 904477 01 1

RRP: £10.00

Bynames
an anthology of invented bynames for real people
conceived and edited by Epic Filley (Alec Finlay)

This anthology includes a variety of ‘bynames’ for famous writers and artists, invented names, misspellings, and pseudonyms. The majority of the bynames in the book are invented names for famous writers and artists.

Published: 2003
Publisher: platform projects, morning star BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Edition of 1500 copies
Dimensions: 180mm x 120mm
ISBN: 1 904477 02 X

RRP: £10.00

Wind Blown Cloud
Artist anthology of photographs collected by Alec Finlay
An anthology produced by the archive of wind blown clouds, featuring a selection of colour slides contributed between 2000 and 2003.

Published: 2003
Publisher: morning star, BALTIC Centre for the Contemporary Art
Edition of 1100 copies
Extent: pb, 56pp, col.
Dimensions: 180mm x 120mm
ISBN: 1 904477 03 8

RRP: £10.00

Irish (2)
Artist book with audio-CD
Alec Finlay, Guy Moreton, Zoë Irvine, Tim Robinson
A walk in Skjolden and Rosro. Paul Celan's poem 'Irisch' (with five translations of the poem into English, and a translation into Irish Gaelic) overlaid onto photographs of the path to the Wittgenstein hut in Norway; accompanied with an essay by Tim Robinson describing a walk in Connemara.

Published: 2002
Publisher: morning star, SPACEX, BALTIC:Centre for Contemporary Art
Edition of 750 copies
Extent: pb, 28pp, col.
Dimensions: 179mm x 119mm
ISBN: 0952766957

OUT OF PRINT

Friday 8 May
Artist book by Alexander & Susan Maris; 13 original photographs by Richard Demarco of Joseph Beuys in Scotland, re-photogrphed by Maris. This long text or prose poem, and accompanying photographs, are a response to Joseph Beuys seminal first visit to Scotland in May 1970, and include a series of carefully composed recreations of Richard Demarco’s photographs of Beuys’ first ever journey to Rannoch Moor.

Published: 2002
Publisher: platform projects, morning star publications, BALTIC: The Centre for the Contemporary Art
Edition of 750 copies
Extent: pb col 64 pages
Dimensions: 120mm x 179mm b
ISBN: 01904477046

RRP: £10.00

Cowboy Story

Artist collaboration
Richard Tuttle, Heather Deedman, Zoe Irvine, Alec Finlay

Published: 2002
Published by: morning star, BALTIC
Edition of 750 copies
Extent: pb, 28pp, col.
Dimensions: 180mm x 120mm
ISBN: 0952766930

RRP: £10.00

Football Moon

a selection of football haiku and accompanying illustrations by the artist. Alec Finlay

Published : 2002
Publisher: morning star, BALTIC
Edition of 750 copies
Extent: pb, 28pp, col.
ISBN: 095766940

RRP: £10.00